“It may seem that love makes emotional wrecks of us all, that it wakes us with fire and smothers us with the fear of its absence; but that is not love. Love is aware of loss and yet it pulls you in closer. Love is realizing that everyone needs it, that all are worthy of […]
“You like to think you are in control, but you are not. You are at the mercy of childhood conditioning, your mammalian brain, of relentless outside influences inflating your fears and strengthening the ego. The only control you really have is in letting go of it, in letting the loss and suffering, the abandonment, resentment, […]
“If you want safety and certainty, if you want everything to remain the same and never change, you were born into the wrong parallel universe. All good things, all things worth experiencing and every juicy bit of life is preceded by absence, loss, or the destruction of a once good, yet worn out thing.” -Amy […]
Some of us run from people and situations that cause us to look at ourselves honestly, at those things that seem too difficult to face. What the uncomfortable situations and relationships have to show us is as important as a great work of art or fine poetry or profound scripture. They are truth in metaphor […]
“Ego is fear and panic, security and being certain. Love is understanding and truth, newness and adventure. There is no newness, no awareness or appreciation without dying and loss.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“What you avoid, deny, and push away now may eventually be what you need or want in days to come. And if you push too hard or keep it too distant, you may lose it for good.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“We try to control that (and who) we are most afraid of losing, which is exactly what we must let go of in order to be free. Holding on to the way things “should look” makes you rigid and rots you from the inside out. Trust life. Trust the Unknown.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Peace comes when you have: Oneness with pain and sorrow. Oneness with loneliness. joy, and desire. Oneness with loss, enthusiasm, passion, and creative abandonment. It does not come with separation, with splitting yourself in two or three or four. Peace comes when there is oneness with all things.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
We survive mini-deaths every day. We survive deaths of amazing friendships and situations. Dear ones enter our lives and then they go. People change, migrate and evolve. Some good things fade slowly. Some wonderful things end abruptly. To survive any death – a job loss, a relationship (one you thought would never end), even the […]
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